Re: How prevent data steal thru pen drives?

From: Vanguard \(NPI\) (vanguard.code_at_comcastNIX.com)
Date: 09/26/05 

Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:14:04 -0500

"Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
news:4331AAAF.13C0A522@ddress.com...
> "Steve Clark [MSFT]" wrote:
>>
>> Or maybe he doesn't speak English as his first language... Give the guy
>> a
>> break eh?
>>
>> If this is a USB or Firewire issue, then we can best prevent the problem
>> by
>> applying epoxy or some sort of physical prevention of the access to the
>> device via that port. Barring that, there are other methods such as
>> disabling them in the BIOS (you must still prevent physical access to
>> avoid
>> resetting the BIOS or otherwise changing the settings) or disabling them
>> in
>> Windows.
>>
>> If the issue is all about prevention of data theft, then the physical
>> security mechanisms are the way to go. Other methods will experience
>> varying degrees of success/failure depending on the threats levied
>> against
>> them.
>>
>> <snip>
>
> If English isn't his first language, do you really think he understood a
> word
> that you said? <g>

His IP address of 201.243.215.235 shows him in Venezuela (or, more
correctly, coming from a host there). So English is probably NOT his/her
native language. Be he/she asked in English rather than Castilian (Spanish)
so English should be used in replies to be polite to the poster; i.e., the
poster chose the language in which to post, so that is the language expected
for replies. If he can't understand English (enough to read it) then he/she
should've posted in language that he/she does understand.

More likely the poster submitted his/her message with no intent to return to
check on replies. Could be he/she doesn't have the patience to use Usenet
for posting their query and thinks Usenet is a chat room and expects
immediate response. The first reply (mine) was 14 hours after their post.
They probably never came back to look (i.e., more noise in the group). 

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